Monday, September 30, 2013

America is a resilient nation. We have had bad Presidents before, but
without a doubt, never as bad as the current occupant of the White
House. Hopefully, over time America should bounce back from the chaos
and destruction Obama’s policies and leadership have inflicted upon this
nation.

We
have witnessed Obama vacillate and abdicate American national security
interest to tyrants and challengers on the world stage; while
paradoxically, Obama ignores American laws and bullies his political
opponents in the US.

How can a great people in such a grand nation ever allow a
revolutionary to assume the highest elected office in the United States?
Maybe, as the deaf tone Republican leadership played the traditional
roles of politics, the progressive juggernaut covertly infiltrated and
dominated mainstream media, academia, and Hollywood. The progressive
wing of Congressional Democrats surged in Congress while mainstream
Dixieland Democrats were purged. Congressional Democrats have titled so
far left of center that patriotism is now a relic that has been replaced
by progressive orthodoxy.

The old Journalist networks that previously provided less biased news
and information has morphed into an unholy triangle which has forgone
financial rewards in order to support a progressive agenda.

Stealthily,
this unholy triangle has joined forces with the progressive radicals in
the Democrat Party to squash conservatism.

The first pillar of the unholy triangle, the progressive media
empire, shapes, censors, and fits the news to advance a progressive
agenda and protect a Democrat President. We have seen how the media can
create a Republican scandal or crisis when there is none. We also
witnessed this empire bury news to stop and shield Democrats from
growing scandals such as Benghazi, NSA, and IRS. In the largess of media
power, it effectively filters the information to restrict the
Republican message from ever reaching the public.

The second pillar of the unholy triangle, Academia, is no longer a
vibrant institution of intellectual exploration. Academia reeks of
extreme ideological professors who rule with iron fists and tolerate no
thought or expression apart from their progressive theocracy. Try to
invite a notable conservative speaker to address any prestigious campus.
The faculty will vocally revolt to such an idea and their brainwashed
students will follow suite in an attempt to verbally intimidate the
administration into cancelling such opportunities, and, if that doesn’t
work, will rudely interrupt and harass the speakers at every
opportunity. How hypocritical are the Academia declarations of the right
to “freedom of speech”! To the majority of Academia today, that right
is only guaranteed if you share their agnostic religion of
progressivism!

We had Greenbrier Cuban graduates who went back to fight Castro with sad results.

Any professor in the U.S. who utters the “N-word” even offhandedly
gets cashiered instantly.

Examples abound. Nowadays even using the
perfectly proper term “Negro” can get an educator fired, as in the case
of a Bronx teacher.

The trick to—not only keeping one’s academic job—but catapulting to emeritus
status apparently involves using the term “Negro” only for
anti-communist black people that you lynched. I use the word “lynch”
here—not in the current conservative context referring to liberal
handling of Herman Cain, Allen West, Clarence Thomas, etc.—but
literally, as in murdering. An example exists:

The first (victim) was a tall handsome mulatto. He
stood blindfolded before the paredon (firing squad wall), his hands
bound in front of him. “Muchachos,” he said calmly, “The only crime you
are going to commit is to kill me, because I am innocent.”

I stepped into the field shouted: “Ready!..Aim!–FIRE!”…the man
went down and I went up to him immediately, commanding the firing squad
to order arms as I walked. There were bullet holes in his shirt and he
seemed dead, but I wasted no time in putting the automatic to his head
and pulled the trigger. It made a neat round hole.

Next (victim) to die was a Negro who was hauled kicking and
screaming to the paredon…I told the jailers to throw him up against the
wall and get out of the way…the condemned man froze in terror when he
saw his executioners arrayed before him.

Participants in the Planned Parenthood Project Tour were harassed and
the display was vandalized during a stop at Indiana University.

More information: www.PlannedParenthoodProject.com

Students
for Life of America (SFLA) is one of the nation's most active pro-life
organizations and the largest youth pro-life organization. We are the
only national pro-life organization dedicated to training and equipping
college, high school, medical, and law school students. Our approach is
uniquely effective, and the methods we have developed are a combination
of time-tested techniques and cutting-edge technology.

A two-decade family feud came to a violent end when a man shot dead
the two home invaders that killed his wife and son, not knowing the
assailants included his long-estranged daughter, authorities said
Sunday.

Though the investigation of Friday's shootings continues,
authorities said it appears Josephine and Jeffrey Ruckinger planned to
murder her family at their rural central Pennsylvania home — but it
remains unclear what exactly led to the deadly confrontation.

"They
parked at the bottom of a long driveway, and walked up, heavily armed,"
said Cambria County District Attorney Kelly Callihan.

Josephine
Ruckinger was armed with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun and her husband
had a Derringer pistol and a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun as they
approached the Frew family home in Ashville, about 40 miles southwest of
State College, according to investigators.

John
Frew, his wife Roberta, and their son John Jr., 47, had just returned
from dinner out, and were watching TV in the living room of the white
mobile home when there was a knock at the door, authorities said.

Police
say Roberta, 64, answered the door, and cried out something like "Oh my
God, they have guns!" before her daughter shot her at point-blank
range. John Jr. then may have attempted to arm himself with a gun, but
Jeffrey Ruckinger shot him multiple times in the chest, killing him,
police said.

The elder Frew, 67, grabbed a .22 revolver and came
out from the bedroom to find the daughter he didn't initially recognize
pointing the shotgun at him. Frew fired once, hitting her in the head,
then turned and exchanged fire with Jeffrey Ruckinger, killing him. He
then called police.

Josephine Ruckinger was still alive when police arrived, but later died at an area hospital. John Frew was not hurt.

When the Constitution’s Framers adopted the 3rd Amendment,
prohibiting the peacetime quartering of soldiers, they had fresh on
their minds the experience of the British occupation of Boston, the use
of armed enforcers to conduct searches without traditionally restrictive
warrants, and the overall spectacle of government officials heavily
armed in a military capacity patrolling the streets to enforce the
central state’s will. Thomas Jefferson condemned standing armies as
“instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place
them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors,
whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such
instruments on foot but in well-defined cases.”

The fear here was not so much that soldiers nominally associated with
the military proper would patrol the streets, but that heavily armed
officials with the best military equipment available would treat
domestic affairs as though everywhere were a war zone. The colors of the
uniforms and even jurisdiction were secondary to the material existence of ubiquitous armed agents with wide discretion in enforcing the government’s decrees.

There are so many problems raised by Obamacare that one wonders if it
was designed deliberately to fail. You don’t need a course in economics
to have predicted two of the biggest problems:

1) the provision
requiring any employer with 50 or more employees to provide healthcare.
This has spawned an epidemic of companies called “49ers” with 49 or
fewer employees; and,

2) the provision requiring that any employee
working more than 30 hours be given employer-provided health insurance.
This has made part-time employment the new norm. Last month fully 70
percent of all new jobs created were part-time jobs.

On Thursday,
Generation Joshua is going to deploy a team of over 100 students across
Virginia to bring the clear message of life, liberty, and freedom to
voters. The upcoming governor’s election in Virginia is considered by many a test run for the nation as to what values will matter for the 2014 congressional elections.

The liberals are aggressively opposing homeschool dad Ken Cuccinelli in his run for governor. Throughout his career, Ken has taken stand after stand for personal freedom, limited government, and justice. His stand has been so clear that both liberty-loving Ron Paul and values champion Mike Huckabee have endorsed him.

But as you would expect, any time someone stands up with a clear
message advancing liberty, responsibility, and justice in America, the
people who think government knows best set their sights on taking him
down. Recently I received an email opposing Ken, and I’ll just let you
read it.

Ken Cuccinelli’s extreme agenda isn’t just talk:

• He supported ‘personhood’ legislation that could have banned common forms of birth control like the pill.

• He pushed medically unnecessary regulations on women’s health clinics that have already led one facility to shut its doors

• And he almost derailed the state budget in an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood!

For some strange reason, I feel like I want to work harder to support this man.
Which brings me to the point of this email: if we are going to stand
up for our liberty, and if we want to do our best to elect a homeschool
dad as governor in George Washington’s state, we need to raise another
$15,000.

If you would consider partnering with us, we would greatly appreciate it. We have been given a matching grant up to $25,000.This means every dollar you contribute is doubled—$5 becomes $10, $25 becomes $50, $50 becomes $100, $500 becomes $1,000, etc. We want to make maximum impact but we can't do it without your help.

Something is happening in Greece and global elitists don't like it so they are up to their regular shenanigans that deprive people of their rights and due process. No worries though. It's all in the name of routing evil. Okay, whatever. Let's ask Golden Dawn leaders though.

Apparently, the Golden Dawn political group in Greece is now seen as a Neo-Nazi group so police have begun arresting their leaders and are essentially doing their level best to shut down the political party because of it. The authorities have gone so far as to charge leaders as being part of a "criminal organization." This party is an extreme right-wing party in Greece so elitists don't like that. To make matters worse, "a Greek 'Gangster Rapper' singer known as 'P Killa' was stabbed to death. The suspected killer had Golden Dawn campaign materials at his house. The murder is being used to as an excuse to try to outlaw a major political party."

I'm sorry, but this is too hilarious to be true. A Greek gangster rapper was found to have Golden Dawn campaign materials in his home when police found his body? Wow, how convenient. Beyond this, the individual accused of killing P Killa is said to be "George Roupakias, 45, an avowed supporter of Golden Dawn."

Deny Director discussed HB937 repeal in meetings...

NC
School Board Association President Evelyn Bulluck and NC School Boards
Action Center President Tim Morgan responded last Thursday to GRNC's exposure of their efforts to use YOUR TAX DOLLARS to repeal state law allowing storage of handguns in locked containers on school property.

In
their response, sent to every School Board Member in the state, they
claim that NCSBA Director of Government Relations, Leanne Winner has not
been advocating repeal of HB937 in her meetings with county school
boards around the state. According to Bulluck and Morgan's letter,

“Here
are the facts: At no time during her [Director Winner's] district
meeting legislative updates has Ms. Winner claimed that NCSBAC will be
used to repeal the concealed carry firearm statute.”

The problem with this statement is that it is a complete fabrication.
Director Winner has been criss-crossing the state, meeting with school
boards, and promoting an anti-Second Amendment agenda calling for repeal
of HB937. GRNC knows this because we have audio recordings of her meetings. You can listen to one of these recordings of Director Winner's statements yourself Here and at: http://grnc.org/media/audio/Leanne_Winner.mp3.

Not
only does Director Winner call for repeal, but she also impunes the
General Assembly for passing the law, particularly the NC Senate. She
alsoinsults every holder of a concealed handgun permit in the state,
by outrageously claiming that we will have shoot-outs in school parking
lots over athletic event disagreements. And unfortunately this law
won't help us defend our kids in “Gun Free Schools”. It will simply
allow us to avoid defenseless traveling to and from campus.

President
Bulluck's memo goes on to accuse GRNC of misrepresenting NCSBA's
position, telling EVERY School Board Member in the state that GRNC has
lied. This cannot stand. It is NCSBA who is attacking the fundamental
rights of North Carolinians, insulting legislators and handgun
permittees, and spindling the truth while spending OUR TAX DOLLARS to do
it. THIS MUST BE STOPPED!

Is it really asking too much that if a journalist accuses someone of
hate in an article that the article actually attempt to support the
allegation of hate? What she proved in the article is that she thinks
Richard Spencer is a politically incorrect wrongthinker and he offended
her oh so rightthinking sensibilities But what the author believes to
be politically incorrect wrongthink does not equal hate, and the use of
the word hate is rank demagoguery.

North Carolina's
Republican governor and GOP lawmakers are vowing to fight a lawsuit
filed by the U.S. Justice Department challenging the state's tough new
elections law on the grounds it disproportionately impacts minority
voters.

Gov. Pat McCrory says the federal
complaint filed Monday is an overreach and without merit. McCrory says
he has hired private lawyers to help defend the new law from what he
suggested was a partisan attack by President Barack Obama's Democratic
administration.

North Carolina's new law cuts
early voting by a week, ends same-day voter registration and includes a
stringent photo ID requirement.

Almost immediately after I had been
introduced, several hands would go up and the question that would be put
to me; Mr. Edgerton, where do you stand on the President's request for
support to take military action against Syria?

I would reply: " I find it ironic that President Obama
who would champion the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Assad and many of the
third world cruel dictators that have surfaced since the War Between the
States took their training from the hand book of Lincoln's policy of
committing total warfare on innocent old men, children and especially
women, carried out by his Generals, Grant and Sherman.

( 2 ) Mr. Edgerton , I read where you spoke about the
Dream of King, and have said that the likes of Jackson don't have a clue
on how to bring the sons of former slave owners and the sons of former
slaves to the Table of Brotherhood. What would you do or suggest how
that would take place?

I would answer that I would solicit the help from a
real trustworthy Holy Man, and my choice would be Father Alister
Anderson, Past Chaplain In Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
After that answer, a lot of hands would go up. However, I would defer
any questions on the matter to Father Anderson of whom I wished could
have been present in this gathering of Black folks who now wanted to
meet him.

One very old Black man would recount that his grand
father had been taken by union troops and forced to serve in the Yankee
army, and generally did not like to talk about the war, but when pushed
to on an occasion of a family gathering, had cried as he recalled a day
when he was forced to set the torch to a home of a decent White family
who had shown so much kindness to him and other slaves that had been
farmed out to them by their Master. He said that there was not a dry eye
in that gathering, and that no one ever asked again of his grandpa
about the War Between the States.

As I made my way from the low country of South
Carolina, I could not help but feel a deep sadness that so many people
of the South both White and Black had been turned against each other
after they had stood together for so long in a test of human suffering
and inevitable love and kindness that they would find for each other in
the course of human events.

The Ellenboro Fair in Ellenboro, North Carolina that
once issued to the Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans a ban
on the Southern Cross because it would be offensive to some of the
patrons has now in the third consecutive year welcomed the Rutherfordton
Rifle Camp Sons and their Colors. I would don the uniform of the
Southern soldier and alongside their Commander Jim Kennedy, Bud Scott
and others of the Camp, post the Colors for four days before the fifth
day would rain us all out.

Just an idle thought: from 1900 to 1933, US dollar was worth roughly a pennyweight (1/20 troy ounce or 1.556 gram) of gold. As of today, gold trades for just under $ 43/gram. A dollar today buys about 67 times less gold than it did in 1925. Do we earn 67 times more? A more Meaningful comparison Would be to the Wages and prices of the Day . In 1924, a typical farm wage was a little less than $ 50/month, or a little over $ 44K annually in today's money. Skilled trades (numbers for unionized workers in NYC, therefore not typical of the rest of the country) were four to six times higher.
Another source listed average income under $ 100/month - I am sure that
these numbers varied greatly with location and other factors.
I am not sure how the linked site came up with the 1:12.48 ratio - for
that to be accurate, the purchasing power of gold had to be 5.3 times
lower than today. For New Technologies , like radios, That was more than true. A good radio with a speaker approached $ 100 - imagine how much technology $ 6,700 buy us today!

There was an Internet article on http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com
the headline of which read “Confederate Flag’s Re-emergence: Racism or
Regional Pride?” To those of you who follow this sort of thing, you
already know where this article is going. It’s one among scores that
seem to appear every week across the country. Someone, somewhere waves a
Confederate flag and the “news” (what a laugh) media is there to shout
“KKK Invasion!” It would be ludicrous if it were not so sad. A
public-school-“educated” populace is so completely befuddled that many
of them actually take this stuff seriously.

According to this article Confederate flags seem to have made a
re-emergence in the Philadelphia area—a region those of Yankee/Marxist
mentality thought they had sewed up. Turns out they might be in error.

Author
Robert Penn Warren writes below of “The Treasury of Virtue,” the
psychological heritage left to the North by the war and the irrefutable
basis of its long-serving Myth of Saving the Union. With his armies
victorious the Northerner was free “to write history to suit his own
deep needs . . . and knows, as everybody knows, that the war saved the
Union.”

“When
one is happy in forgetfulness, facts get forgotten. In the happy
contemplation of the Treasury of Virtue it is forgotten that the
Republican platform of 1860 pledged protection to the institution of
slavery where it existed, and that the Republicans were ready, in 1861,
to guarantee slavery in the South, as bait for a return to the Union.

It
is forgotten that in July, 1861, both houses of Congress, by an almost
unanimous vote, affirmed that the War was waged not to interfere with
the institutions of any State but only to maintain the Union. The War,
in the words of the House resolution, should cease “as soon as these
objects are accomplished.”

It
is forgotten that the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September
23, 1862, was limited and provisional: slavery was to be abolished only
in the seceded States and only if they did not return to the Union
before the first of the next January.

It
is forgotten that the Proclamation was widely disapproved [in the
North] and even contributed to the serious setbacks to Republican
candidates for office in the subsequent election.

It
is forgotten that, as Lincoln himself freely admitted, the Proclamation
itself was of doubtful constitutional warrant and was forced by
circumstances; that only after a bitter and prolonged struggle in
Congress was the Thirteenth Amendment sent, as late as January, 1865, to
the States for ratification; and that all of Lincoln’s genius as a
horse trader (here the deal was Federal patronage swapped for Democratic
votes) was needed to get Nevada admitted to Statehood, with its
guaranteed support of the Amendment.

It
is forgotten that even after the Fourteenth Amendment, not only
Southern States, but Northern ones, refused to adopt Negro suffrage, and
that Connecticut had formally rejected it a late as July, 1865.

It
is forgotten that Sherman, and not only Sherman, was violently opposed
to arming Negroes against white troops. It is forgotten that . . .
racism was all too common in the liberating army.

It
is forgotten that only the failure of Northern volunteering overcame
the powerful prejudice against accepting Negro troops, and allowed
“Sambo’s Right to be Kilt,” -- as the title of a contemporary song had
it.

It
is forgotten that racism and Abolitionism might, and often did, go hand
in hand. This was true even in the most instructed circles [as James T.
Ayers, clergyman, committed abolitionist and Northern recruiting
officer for Negro troops confided to his diary] that freed Negroes would
push North and “soon they will be in every whole and Corner, and the
Bucks will be wanting to gallant our Daughters Round.” It is forgotten,
in fact, that history is history.

Despite
all this, the war appears, according to the doctrine of the Treasury of
Virtue, as a consciously undertaken crusade so full of righteousness
that there is enough oversurplus stored in Heaven, like the deeds of the
saints, to take care of all small failings and oversights of the
descendants of the crusaders, certainly unto the present generation. The
crusaders themselves, back from the wars, seemed to feel that they had
finished the work of virtue.

[Brooks
Adams pronounced] “Can we look over the United States and honestly tell
ourselves that all things are well within us?” [Adams] with his
critical, unoptimistic mind, could not conceal it from himself, but many
could; and a price was paid for the self delusion.

As
Kenneth Stampp, an eminent Northern historian and the author of a
corrosive interpretation of slavery, puts it: “The Yankees went to war
animated by the highest ideals of the nineteenth-century middle classes .
. . But what the Yankees achieved – for their generation at least – was
a triumph not of middle class ideals but of middle class vices. The
most striking products of their crusade were the shoddy aristocracy of
the North and the ragged children of the South. Among the masses of
Americans there were no victors, only the vanquished.”

(The Legacy of the Civil War, Robert Penn Warren, University of Nebraska Press, 1998, pp. 60-65)

In
1964 George Hurst was looking for a car for the 1965 drag racing season
that would serve as a test bed and promote the Hurst brand and his
aftermarket shifters and wheels. Hot Rod Magazine Tech Editor Ray Brock
liked the new-for-1965 A/FX class, and explained to Hurst how putting a
Hemi in the back of a Barracuda would give excellent weight transfer and
be very quick off the line. Brock even had a name for the creation: the
Hurst Hemi Under Glass. He sketched the idea onto a napkin over dinner,
which Hurst took back to his shop with the question, “Can we build
this?” The answer was typical of any self-respecting bunch of hot
rodders: “Sure, we can build whatever you want.”

The finished car, however, was not what Hurst wanted - at least not at
first. The Hemi’s mid-engine location and vast power reserves made it
all but impossible to launch the car hard without instantly lifting the
nose skyward in quite dramatic fashion. What looked like a major
problem, however, turned out to be a huge hit with the fans, and so was
born the most popular series of crowd-pleasing wheelstanders in drag
racing history.

The original 1965 Hurst Hemi Under Glass set the pattern for a
succession of cars that appeared at major events across North America
until 1975 and then again from 1992 until 2009. Bob Riggle was there
every step of the way, first as a Hurst mechanic and fabricator and then
as one of only two men ever to pilot the Hurst Hemi Under Glass.

North Carolina is the latest target in
the Obama regime’s mission of suing as many ostensibly sovereign states
as possible. Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans to seek legal
action against the state based on new voter identification laws.

While state leaders and residents
overwhelmingly favor plans to ensure votes cast in a particular election
are legitimate, Holder naturally assumes the real driving force is
institutional racism.

“Allowing limits on voting rights that
disproportionately exclude minority voters would be inconsistent with
our ideals as a nation,” he said during a Monday morning press
conference.

His harsh criticism stems from laws that would reduce the period of early voting while requiring voters present valid identifications at polling places.

Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, is a revealed religion. In all
three faiths, alleged revelation of spiritual and moral truth is
recorded in a book or books that are considered sacred andunconditional.
Judaism has the books of the Old Testament, and Christianity has added
the books of the New Testament to that foundation. The alleged divine
revelation of truth and moral principles in Islam is the Koran. An
important characteristic of revealed religion is that its teachings have
the status of final divine authority and are therefore not subject to
amendment or reinterpretation by mankind or majority vote.

The Bible was written over many centuries by men who are considered to
have been divinely inspired. The Christian view is that their writings
may reflect various literary styles, personalities, and historical
contexts, but they impart divine truth as the authors were moved by God
in the person of the Holy Spirit. The Jewish view of Scripture is
similar but does not embrace Christian New Testament books or view God
as a Divine Trinity— Father, Son (Jesus), and Holy Spirit.

Islam’s view of the Koran goes far beyond the Judeo-Christian concept
of divine inspiration. Muslins believe that the Koran was written by
Allah (Arabic for God) and already existed in heaven before the Angel
Gabriel gave it piecemeal to their Prophet. Muhammad faithfully revealed
these passages to his followers as they were given to him over a period
of 22 years. Shortly after his death in 632, Muhammad’s followers
compiled these revelations into a perfectly accurate rendering of the
heavenly Koran.

The Koran is a little smaller than the New Testament and contains
considerable repetition. For example, the story of the Exodus is
repeated 27 times. Eliminating the repetitions in the Koran would make
it only about 40 percent as big as the New Testament. Because the
Koran’s verses often neglect to give the full context of its
revelations, other teachings of Muhammad recorded by his followers are
critical to its interpretation. These are called the Hadiths.
The Hadiths which Muslim scholars consider most reliable are regarded
as truth only slightly less sacred and significant than the Koran
itself. These collections are especially important because they help
fill in the context and meaning of Koranic verses. Still, many objective
Western scholars of the Koran consider about 20 percent of its verses
to make little sense. Much Muslim scholarship goes into tracing and
determining the authority and reliability of the Hadiths, but the Koran
itself is not very open to different interpretations. In a society
dominated by Islamic Law (Sharia) the penalty for doubting standard
interpretations of the Koran can be death.

The Koran’s many repetitions are often inaccurate borrowings from the
Old Testament and other Jewish writings. Of the 27 repetitions of the
Exodus story, the Passover—a very important part to Jews and
Christians—is consistently left out. It also contains some confused
Christian history and theology. For example, Isa (apparently Jesus) is
said to be the son of Mary (confused with Miriam), the sister of Mosses
and Aaron. Isa, the Jesus of Islam, is not the Son of God but only a
Prophet and did not die on the cross or save anybody from their sins. He
comes back at the end of time to destroy Christianity and convert
people to Islam. Despite these obvious (and often distorted) borrowings,
Muslims do not consider Islam to be a derivative of Judaism or
Christianity. They consider Islam to be the original faith of Abraham of
which Judaism and Christianity are corruptions.

Although “Allah” is a monotheistic god with many characteristics common
to the Lord God of the Bible—all-powerful, all-knowing, sovereign over
all nature and mankind—their personalities as painted by the Koran and
the Bible respectively are quite different. Muslims insist that Allah
and the Lord God of Judeo-Christianity are the same, but many Christians
disagree. Most Muslims who have converted to Christianity, however,
consider that Allah is God, but that Islam has badly distorted his true
nature and personality.

One of the great concerns about Islam to the West is its violent
nature. For 1400 years its principal way of spreading the Muslim faith
has been the sword. The Koran calls for Holy War to make Islam the
dominant religion of the world in no less than 109 verses. So much that
Jihad must be considered a cardinal pillar of Islam. It seems secondary
in importance only to the proclamation that Allah is the only god and
Muhammad is his prophet.

The call to Jihad is really a derivative of another cardinal principle
of Muslim theology—the Supremacy of Islam. This is seen especially in
Surah (chapter) 9, verse 33:

“He
it is who hath sent his Apostle with the Guidance and a religion of
truth, that He may make it victorious over every other religion, albeit
they who assign partners to God be averse from it.”

It should be noted that “assigning partners to God” is a major sin in
Islam, the Trinitarian God of Christianity—Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit—is blasphemy to Muslims.

I often hear people claiming that with proper teaching or guidance
Islam could be made into a more peaceful religion, more compatible with
the West. This is close to being nonsense. Islam is a revealed religion
not subject to change or pacification by majority vote or the influence
of the West, women, or “moderates.” The problem is in the Koran and the
teachings of Muhammad. You cannot make Islam into a religion of peace
without removing the Koran and Muhammad.

Another concern which the West must take into account when dealing with
Islam is that according to the Koran and Muhammad, civil government and
Islamic law, ideology, and religion should be inseparable. Most Sunni
and Shia religious leaders consider democracy an affront to the Will of
Allah.

The Department of Veterans Affairs told congressional officials
Friday that all benefit checks it issues, including disability claims
and pension payments, will be disrupted if a government shutdown lasts
for more than two or three weeks, according to congressional sources.

During the telephone briefing, the leadership of the House and Senate
Veterans Affairs committees were told that VA will run out of money to
make compensation and pension payments if a partial shutdown is drawn
out for weeks, according to aides to two members of Congress.

The briefing, which was provided by VA
congressional affairs, represents a significant change from what the
members had previously been told, and from the information the VA has
released to the public, according to congressional officials.

A rare dummy parachuted into occupied
Europe to bamboozle the Germans on D-Day and draw their forces from the
actual invasion has been found in a garden shed.

At
least 500 of the 3ft stunt puppets were dropped along with SAS soldiers
at four spots away from the Normandy beaches to take the enemy away
from genuine drop zones.

Sent
in the middle of the night, these canvas 'paradummies' - nicknamed
Ruperts - were designed to burst into flames when they landed so the
Germans could not find them.

But one has survived combat and has been
discovered at the bottom of a British garden along with some once top
secret maps and documents.

Six SAS soldiers were parachuted in
with the dolls, with equipment playing the sounds of a loud battle to make
the subterfuge even more realistic.Although they were half the size of a human, they would have
appeared lifelike to those looking up from the ground on a dark night.

The schools [utilizing Common Core]… are organized in a highly
centralized government-run system. They [Common Core courses] have the
following characteristics in common: they are overwhelmingly secular in
orientation; a common school is provided through at least grades seven
or eight; little or no tuition charge is made; schools are mostly
coeducational; the curricula are tightly prescribed, as are the
textbooks...students are offered few electives…”

Sound familiar? Although this sounds like Common Core, with the exception of the inserted text, it’s actually a description
from “Common Features of Education System in Communist Nations.” Common
Core is a top-down national curriculum currently being forced on our
public schools that attempts to treat every student exactly the same
regardless of ability. It is reminiscent of the slogan popularized by
Karl Marx, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his
need,” which means no matter how hard someone works, or how intelligent
they are, everyone will be treated the same. But due to flaws inherent
in human nature, such as laziness and greed, this slogan is incapable of
ever becoming reality, and attempts to implement it have resulted in
the deaths of millions in Stalinist Russia and Mao Tse-Tung's China.

Not all scientists are panicking about global warming — one of them finds the alarmism “hilarious.”

A top climate scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lambasted a new report
by the UN’s climate bureaucracy that blamed mankind as the main cause
of global warming and whitewashed the fact that there has been a hiatus
in warming for the last 15 years.

“I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence,” Dr. Richard Lindzen told
Climate Depot, a global warming skeptic news site. “They are
proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies
between their models and observations increase.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
claimed it was 95 percent sure that global warming was mainly driven by
human burning of fossil fuels that produce greenhouse gases. The
I.P.C.C. also glossed over the fact that the Earth has not warmed in the
past 15 years, arguing that the heat was absorbed by the ocean.
“Their excuse for the absence of warming over the past 17 years is
that the heat is hiding in the deep ocean,” Lindzen added. “However,
this is simply an admission that the models fail to simulate the
exchanges of heat between the surface layers and the deeper oceans.”

People attending a House Rules Committee hearing on Saturday evening burst into laughter when Rep. Jim McGovern (D.-Mass.) affirmed to House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R.-Ky.) that President Barack Obama, by threatening to veto a continuing resolution to fund the government past Monday if it includes a House amendment to delay Obamacare, has thus “drawn a red line” on the CR.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.